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BEYOND HER BOOK Barbara Vey, Contributing Editor, Publishers Weekly January 6, 2009 Conferences Galore
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SARA NELSON Sara Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, January 5, 2009 Not Again!
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GENREVILLE Rose Fox, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Horror Reviews Editor, Publishers Weekly January 5, 2009 Book Trailers
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MIST PLACE Rick Simonson, Bookseller, November 7, 2008 Reconstituting
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It is a truism about holidays that they can be hell on families: those crazy relatives whose peccadilloes you can defend from a distance all year long are suddenly in your face, and harder to take. So it was for me last week when I heard the news—first reported by Gabriel Sherman in the New Republic,
though rumors of the story have been circulating on the Internet for some time—tha... read on
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